LONDON - British leader Keir Starmer said on June 3 that there was “no justification” for violence after protesters clashed with police in a demonstration against officers’ handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man.

The prime minister branded as “unforgivable” calls by hard-right firebrand Nigel Farage for people to respond with “pure cold rage” to the death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak – a murder that has become highly politicised in the UK.

Far-right figures have seized on the case of Nowak, who was put in handcuffs and heard on police bodycam footage repeatedly telling officers he could not breathe as he lay mortally wounded in December.

His attacker, Vickrum Digwa, however, lied and told police he was the victim as Nowak had racially insulted him.

Digwa, 23, was jailed for at least 21 years on June 1 for stabbing Nowak to death using a ceremonial knife with a 21cm blade in the southern city of Southampton following an altercation about a mobile phone.